While on that subject, I recommend that anyone with a Europe vs America intellectual superiority complex watches at least five minutes of Two Pints of Lager And a Packet of Crisps. This will provide unequivocal evidence that they are hopelessly, tragically wrong. Genuinely the worst comedy ever made, anywhere.

What was that sit-com about a single mother called? I can’t remember, but it was crap.

Brighton Belles was probably the worst ever. Why does Carla Lane insist on describing herself as a writer of comedy, rather than gloomy undramatic drama? When even the thoroughly warmed-up studio audience don’t laugh more than twice an episode, you know something’s gone wrong.

just because there’s a terrible british comedy doesn’t mean american comedies are better – there are some truly awful american sitcoms that won’t ever make it over here, just as presumably, american audiences won’t have to endure the whiny idiots from 2 pints.